Loading-gate for magazine-guns



(No Model.)

-W. TRABUE.

H LOADING GATE FOR MAGAZINE GUNS., ,No. 276,308. Patented Apr. 24, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM TRABUE, OF LQUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

LOADING-GATE FOR MAGAZINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,308, dated April24, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (N 0 model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TRABUE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, have invented newand useful Improvements in Fire- Arms, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful im provements infire-arms, and particularly to that class known as magazine-guns, whichare adapted .to be used as breech-loaders.

My invention hasfor its object to provide in thefside plate a gate ordoor through which cartridges may be introduced into the breech. Priorto my invention various devices have been devised, in allof which(except in a ponding applicationfor Letters Patent by me filed some timein December, 1882) the plate is provided with a permanent opening whichis closed by an autoniatically-closing gate or door arranged underneaththe plate. My present invention, like that described in my pendingapplication, involves the general idea of so arranging the gate or doorwithin the opening in the. side ofthe plate that when the door is closedthe plate has the appearance of being smooth and continuous; and thespecial feature of my present invention is the particular feature ofconstruction and arrangement, hereinafter described, for accomplishingthis result.

To enable those skilled to fully understand my invention, Iwill proceedto describe the same, referring by letters to the accompanying drawings,in which at the proper locality is cutaway sufficientl y to permit theready introduction of a shell. The vertical edges of this opening areprovided with a dovetail groove to receive and hold the edges of thegate or door B, as clearly shown at Fig. 4, and the exterior surfaces ofthe door 13 and plate A at their meeting edges are beveled orcapped, asseen at (J, to facilitate the opening of the door by pressure of thebullet end of the cartridge in an obvious manner. The lower edge of thedoor B is provided with an inwardly-projecting arm or foot,D,"at rightangles to its line of movement, adapted to rest upon a spiral or otherspring, E, which opcrates to force the gate or door toa closed position.

It will be observed that the gate B becomes a part of the plate, andexactly fills and closes .the opening made in said plate for itsreception, and that when closed the plate has no unsightly and awkwarddepressions to catch dirt, &c.

I do not of course wish to lay any broad claim to this idea in thiscase, as that forms the subject of another pending case before reierredto; but

What I do claim as now, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The side plate, A, provided with an opening for the reception of shells,fitted and closed by a vertically-reelprocating door or gate, B,arraiiged in dovetail grooves, and provided with an inwardly-projectingfoot, D, in combination with an actuating-spring, E, substantially asshown and described.

' In testimony whereofl have hereunto set my handin the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM TRABUE.

Witnesses F. L. BROWNE, N. U. LAMMOND.

